Comment by AussieWog93
11 hours ago
> because what bothers them is the criticism itself
I think there's a difference between criticism of a policy and being brigaded by a reddit mob.
11 hours ago
> because what bothers them is the criticism itself
I think there's a difference between criticism of a policy and being brigaded by a reddit mob.
Google pushes a new feature to Android where phones wake up at 2:22 AM every night to play a blood-curdling scream at maximum volume, regardless of settings. An issue is created and gets assigned, into which Google employees regularly butt in to explain the feature exists to keep users safe from night break-ins. Nothing changes. People have to start modifying their lives around this problem—most have to shut off their phones during the night, many had to buy a separate alarm clock—and masses of disappointed customers eventually make their way to the bug tracker to voice their concern. The issue gets locked as "too heated".
Apple has had this feature for three years on iOS. What else should they have done?
>What else should they have done?
Use an AOSP fork like grapheneos or lineageos. Barring that, voting with their wallets and buying a HarmonyOS phone. If for whatever reason they're doing that too, there's probably more powerful forces behind this change (eg. government mandates) that won't be helped by spamming an issue tracker.
Downside is those specific forks only work on very specific devices, when there's countless great hardware in the wild with shit software.
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I have bad news for you if you think GrapheneOS isn't going to accept this patch from upstream if it lands.
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You think wrong, "mob" is a collective way of criticizing a policy.
Sure, there are differences in types criticisms, but then try to actually articulate those and address whatever you think the issues with those are